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...years ago, Dan Stillman and Matt Eaton, then sophomores at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, launched WesMatch.com a site featuring a humorous, elaborate personality questionnaire. The service allows students to rate themselves and their potential mates in categories ranging from sex drive to "socialisticbutterflyosity." An algorithm then calculates a student's compatibility with a list of matches. "I wanted a vegan girlfriend who plays the cello and likes folk music," Stillman says. The site has been a hit on the Wesleyan campus. This fall their more ambitious project, CampusMatch, may expand from five to dozens of schools...
...Wesleyan pioneers are not alone. Students from Berkeley to Brown now have access to online college dating services. One might think that with keg parties and road trips and coed dorms, college dating would not require online assistance. But to a generation of people brought up surfing the Net, it seems natural that they would find dates the same way that they buy books or keep journals. Dave Kloster, one of a group of M.I.T. students who last month launched the Matchup, a Boston-based dating site, says, "The more intense the school," the more receptive students have been...
Prenup or no prenup, the situation would be the same. Prenups just aren't a factor in calculating aid. So, yes, you must supply the information. But here's good news: some schools, such as Ivies and other top institutions (like Wesleyan and Emory) have recently adopted a new home-equity policy that caps home value at 2.4 times family income...
...Department of Music hosts Eric Charry, whose study of Mande music has carried him to Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Guinea. Charry, a professor of music at Wesleyan University, will speak on Jazz and Africa. 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public; Room 2 in the Music Building...
When I visited Wesleyan, in Conn., I loved its hallways. When my life at Harvard seems too academic, too focused, too political or just too much, I dream of hanging out, sleeping and generally being artistic—at Wesleyan...